Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Makoto Oi

Mitsuo Shimotani

Kazushi Uotani

Kanehide Arai

Shotaro Yoshioka

Yasushi Fujii

Masahito Matsumoto

Masaharu Tamanaha

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that can facilitate setting of an object, such as a favorite team. An information output device includes a database that associates and stores a region on a map and a sport team related to the region, a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a self-vehicle, and a favorite team setting processing unit that sets a favorite team from among sport teams. Moreover, the information output device includes a determination processing unit that specifies the region corresponding to the self-vehicle position acquired by the position acquisition unit and determines the sport team associated with the specified region in the database as an object to be set by the favorite team setting processing unit or a candidate for the object.

Information output device

An object of the present invention is to provide an in-vehicle traffic information notification device which, even when it is difficult to specify a traveling route of an own car, can notify adequate traffic information to users. A passage probability calculator of the traffic information notification device calculates a passage probability which is a probability that the own car passes an occurrence position of each traffic hazard obtained by a traffic information receiver, based on a current position of the own car detected by a current position detector and traveling history data stored in a traveling history data storage. A display unit and a sound output unit notify occurrence information of the traffic hazard to the user by a mode corresponding to the passage probability of the traffic hazard.

In-vehicle traffic information notification device

An AV system that executes image recognition of an identification markprovided on headphonesin a seat side shot image taken with a camera,calculates the coordinate position of the identification markin the shot image, decides from the coordinate position of the identification markas to which one of a plurality of seats a user wearing the headphonessits on, and transmits audio data which corresponds to video data to be displayed on the display screen facing the seat, as to which a decision is made that the user sits on, to the headphonesto be produced as audio output.

AV system

An onboard display device includes multiple screen data that define plural types of screen designs including a character string display frame with equal size; plural types of font data; and multiple character string tables which record character strings to be displayed on a screen with one of the screen designs defined by the plural types of screen data, are each provided for one of the plural types of font data, and include character strings whose written forms are altered according to character size defined by the font data so that the character strings can be contained in the display frame, wherein the decision unitdecides a display type to be used for screen display on a display unit, and the display unitdisplays the screen using the screen data, font data and character string corresponding to the display type decided by the decision unit

Onboard display device

A control unit in a first playback system connected to a musical piece searching unit via a path having the highest data transfer rate includes a determining unit for discriminating between a request for musical piece information from the first playback system and a request for musical piece information from a second playback system, a temporary storage unit for holding data information acquired in response to the request from the second playback system, and a musical piece information transmitting unit for transferring the musical piece information read from the temporary storage unit to the second playback system according to the data transfer rate of a path connecting with the second playback system, and each of the first and second playback systems makes a request of the musical piece searching unit for musical piece information via the control unit, and acquires the data information satisfying the request.

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Kobe, Japan

Makoto Oi